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The findings are of special interest at this time because of the mounting concern over the high accident rate in the United States. The figures show that nearly 11 million people suffered injuries during the past year that disabled them for more than one day. Some 39 million others received minor injuries.
According to the survey, there were 8 fatal accidents among* Rappahannock County, residents, during the year ending Januray 1, 1967, with motor vehicles responsible for 4 of them.
And, for each fatal one, there were nearly 100 other that did not result in loss of life.
Taken into account were all types of accidents in which local people were involved, wherever they occurred. Not included, however, were local accidents affecting non-residents.
Related to the local population, the toll in the area was at the rate of 163 fatalities per 100,000 people.
TTiis was higher than the average rate reported for the United States as a whole, 57 per 100,000. It was higher, also, than the South Atlantic States rate of 62 per 100,000.
Accidents took the lives of 112,000 Americans during the year. Motor vehicles accounted for 47 percent of them, followed by falls, 18 percent. Tlie National Safety Council estimates the cost of accidents at $21.3 billion in the year. TTiis includes loss of wages, medical expenses, property damage and the like. Rappahannock County’s share of this cost, assuming that the average cost per accident applies locally, comes to approximately $1,620,000.
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